tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post7875761721535895135..comments2015-03-31T16:17:15.345-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: SUNDAY, Jul. 19 2009 — Quality is our recipe franchise / Snake with lightning bolts on its back / Greek moralizer / Pets with dewlapsRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30240334341902020662009-07-26T12:25:22.450-04:002009-07-26T12:25:22.450-04:001 week later . . .
I liked 84A IONESCO crossing 78...1 week later . . .<br />I liked 84A IONESCO crossing 78D INESCROW and the WENDY/NANA pair and the ACME/ORANGE participation. Little chuckles to go with the puns.<br /><br />Ionesco was a gimmie to us in syndicationland because &quot;yesterday&quot; we had 2D &quot;The Bald Soprano&quot; playwright, 1950 in Brad Wilber&#39;s June 20 puzzle. What we have not had is all the chat from your recent blogs (which are still a month away from us.)<br /><br />Lynn Lempel made this puzzle? News to the Vancouver Sun, which gave credit to Alan Arbesfeld!TimeTravellernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84760085444784916462009-07-22T17:44:19.176-04:002009-07-22T17:44:19.176-04:00Anybody remember the jingle, &quot;Murine adds not...Anybody remember the jingle, &quot;Murine adds nothing but relief...&quot;?Ameliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15377159639018028534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43665732096498097312009-07-22T03:52:11.022-04:002009-07-22T03:52:11.022-04:00I went through bottles and bottles of Murine in my...I went through bottles and bottles of Murine in my college years!<br /><br />This puzzle was the first in a long, long time that I just couldn&#39;t get going. I finally had to google to get to flow. So I looked up Ireland&#39;s first president and South Vietnam&#39;s first president. After that, it opened up a bit. <br /><br />I didn&#39;t get the theme for the longest time. When it dawned on me, I had fun with it and it helped me continue.<br /><br />I can&#39;t say I enjoyed the stop-starts at all. I do best with a puzzle somewhere between last Sunday&#39;s and this Sunday&#39;s.nurturinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02035395856164817422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56184085268291935992009-07-20T09:11:23.062-04:002009-07-20T09:11:23.062-04:00I loved loved loved this puzzle. Thought it was ve...I loved loved loved this puzzle. Thought it was very fun and an extremely clever construction.<br /><br />I also had SHINE for 97a and think that was a much better answer given the clue.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247154089836968621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15565330943363700392009-07-20T01:34:43.987-04:002009-07-20T01:34:43.987-04:00PS I&#39;m a little surprised no one has brought u...PS I&#39;m a little surprised no one has brought up the whole scandal with 9D DEREK Walcott, considering he has been so much in the news these past few months...having just lost out on the prestigious Oxford Poet position when he withdrew after they brought up all his sexual harrassment scandals from Harvard in the early 80s and again later in the 90s when he threatened to have a student&#39;s play blocked if she didn&#39;t sleep with him (I think it was settled out of court but he lost the Harvard case for sure when he gave a gal who wouldn&#39;t sleep with him a C...)<br />This kind of behavior used to go on all the time when I was an undergrad :( and I&#39;m sad to see he was still at it 10+ years later...<br />Interesting that it caught up to him in this century tho...and he still doesn&#39;t lose his stature of getting to be a NY Times clue...and a Rex gimme at that!<br />Plus he could have been given the boy-clue Jeter!<br /><br />(Where is that british boy who didn&#39;t play well with others on this blog when we need him?!!)<br /> ;)<br />g&#39;niteandrea '80 michaelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36338903634773682892009-07-20T01:11:44.449-04:002009-07-20T01:11:44.449-04:00@Rex
the puzzle tweets I think have become my favo...@Rex<br />the puzzle tweets I think have become my favorite part of the week!<br /><br />@chefwen<br />Funny about Wendy&#39;s! Last time I was in NY I went with PatrickB to Eisenberg&#39;s deli and asked the same thing, if I got a discount bec my name used to be Eisenberg...<br />also got a big &quot;no&quot;, but the owner at least came over and chatted and invited us to join his poker game!<br />Maybe if &quot;Dave&quot; had been lurking behind the counter you would have gotten fries with that...or something! SHame on them!<br />But until now, i had assumed you were Chinese...not that chef wen was for Wendy!!!!<br />i was laughing with Mac this week how wrong I&#39;ve been about EVERY single person I had imagined and then subsequently met from this blog...EVERY one!<br />Starting with Rex whom I had felt SO in sync with those first few months, I assumed he was a male me...ie @50, Jewish and from Minnesota!<br /><br />@bigredanalyst<br />My dad always used to chant &quot;Ishke pishke kick &#39;em in the kishkes, gooooo team!&quot;... Did your grandpa?andrea kishkes michaelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6844990830088475832009-07-20T00:59:09.412-04:002009-07-20T00:59:09.412-04:00@mac
this is the first I&#39;ve heard of that I us...@mac<br />this is the first I&#39;ve heard of that I use strategies and logic!!! But I guess that&#39;s true! I was just surprised that I had so much fun solving with you and then Maria bec I am closed in spirit to Shamik that I just want to do my own thing...always! <br /><br />So that&#39;s why I had to rethink it bec f the joy you guys brought to the process... But I still think that would be more related to later week non-theme puzzles, bec I think Mon-Th would be a solitary outing for me...<br />@Shamik<br />(Yet my happiest memories are doing Sundays as a little girl with my dad...and then later, my most romantic with my live-in beau Sundays in bed...<br />but shortly after that, all significant others were folks who spoke no English, so that put an end to that! So it&#39;s been, like, 20 years since I&#39;ve solved with others and I forgot what a joy that could be.<br /><br />But my fave part of this blog is when Rex refers to what Sandy did (tho they appear to solve separately and compare notes) and the little comments by PuzzleGirl&#39;s husband :)<br /><br />Thanks to the ACPT and this blog I&#39;m now collaborating with others on construction and that too has brought enormous pleasure (and some pain). So it&#39;s all part of the whatever!<br /><br />@Hudson Hawk<br />Now that I hear ACME was in the puzzle, I suppose I&#39;ll have to solve it!<br /><br />@Fitzy<br />I imagine UR THERE was timed for the space landing anniversary to begin with...but that Walter Cronkite&#39;s death was the poignant coincidence...not that this was rushed to print bec of it...<br /><br />Didn&#39;t have time for the puzzle today...but I was at the Natural History Museum with my niece and nephew and saw in the African animal section OKAPIS and ELANDS and even a LORIS!!!!<br />So I count that! (No Oryx tho :( but I didn&#39;t see every exhibit)<br /><br />@pednsg<br />&quot;pulled estrus from the back of my mind&quot; ... I do hope nowhere else! Funny image...ACMEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82641739659762228362009-07-19T22:13:20.913-04:002009-07-19T22:13:20.913-04:00Those of us who speak Italian and have also lived ...Those of us who speak Italian and have also lived in Italy know &quot;Gesu&quot; as both the Italian name for Jesus and as the name of Rome&#39;s important 16th-century Jesuit church (SS. Nome di Gesu or simply &quot;Il Gesu&quot;) quite well.<br /><br />But it&#39;s worth noting that the letter &quot;j&quot; does appear in some Italian regional alphabets, as in the name of the great late Baroque architect and theatrical designer, Filippo Juvarra. His name is sometimes spelled &quot;Iuvarra,&quot; since the &quot;j&quot; in these instances does not stand for the Italian soft &quot;g&quot; followed by &quot;e&quot; or &quot;i&quot;.Lilinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74610212758237409462009-07-19T21:48:09.519-04:002009-07-19T21:48:09.519-04:00I have never used I products so Murine meant nothi...I have never used I products so Murine meant nothing to me. For the longest time I just had &quot;urine.&quot; It kinda threw me off. Knorr, however, was a gimme.Susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06707253125941238251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41840801654394505662009-07-19T21:32:41.236-04:002009-07-19T21:32:41.236-04:00Oh my gourd, the puns! Ick.
But I liked the puzz...Oh my gourd, the puns! Ick.<br /><br />But I liked the puzzle. It was surprisingly blank on first pass but in the end I only had trouble in the GIBE/GELS/STEMCELLS/AMYL area. C-(ur)RATIONS was my first theme answer and I have heard of Murine, but I don&#39;t know how I have heard of it. It&#39;s always nice when that happens.sillygoosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03483946342170291849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46635911270395314792009-07-19T21:07:51.485-04:002009-07-19T21:07:51.485-04:00nice puzzle. somehow knew Murine, though I am not...nice puzzle. somehow knew Murine, though I am not sure how. Also had LAUDED instead of VALUED for awhile. And the LIMP and LIMPID cross reminded me of the word block puzzle from last weekAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67754154520600380872009-07-19T20:34:05.390-04:002009-07-19T20:34:05.390-04:00@Bryan
Personally, I find &quot;digging in the me...@Bryan<br /><br />Personally, I find &quot;digging in the memory bank and doing real thinking&quot; two parts of the same process, just depends where you start.<br /><br />Only when that fails do I admit defeat for the day and turn to outside refrence sources (e.g. Google), adding to my &quot;vocabulary / memory banks&quot; for next time.<br /><br />.../GlitchGlitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940000404613329056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26087189585594633592009-07-19T19:30:21.183-04:002009-07-19T19:30:21.183-04:00Not a fan of this one, the clues, the theme, anyth...Not a fan of this one, the clues, the theme, anything. Except it&#39;s Sunday and I like Sundays. But I disagree that this one required a large amount of &quot;thought,&quot; as has been said -- MURINE and CRATIONS aren&#39;t in my vocabulary and I&#39;m not sorry for it. There&#39;s a difference between digging in the memory bank and doing real thinking. I think this fell on the wrong side.Bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02195900491166051592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3361385624963481442009-07-19T18:43:21.914-04:002009-07-19T18:43:21.914-04:00I think Visine was the preferred eyedrop among a c...I think Visine was the preferred eyedrop among a certain crowd at my high school, and that&#39;s what I, too, almost dropped in since the theme hadn&#39;t yet made itself clear. Medium Challenging for me as well, but with no Harper&#39;s brain fatigue to claim. Quite a few Clues were well down the check-off list today. Simple example was BRUT, after ARID and SERE more commonly. Maybe a dozen others that took a while to tease out. Not complaining, however. <br /><br />A bit rusty on the storyline, but I wrote in PHAEDRE where ARIADNE belonged. Oopsfergushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58985468593661071702009-07-19T18:26:41.849-04:002009-07-19T18:26:41.849-04:00@Clark: Thx, yes, I found this out, too, but hesit...@Clark: Thx, yes, I found this out, too, but hesitated to get back to a point only two of us seemed to be interested in. And yes, it sheds no light on the central mystery, the <b>LITERARY connection</b> between Jesu and pieta (individually, they need no explanation). I think we have to chalk this off to the mysteries of the universe that will never get explained...<br /><br />PS to those who are interested in the finer points of language: Note in line 7 exactly the accusative (Jesum) I mentioned in one of my posts. For the longest time, the name was declinated in the Latin way even in German texts (I still remember bible translations of old that did this)--and that included using the vocative even if it doesn&#39;t exist in German either.Ulrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35231035249423424142009-07-19T18:22:07.522-04:002009-07-19T18:22:07.522-04:00Got &quot;Deck&quot; right away, leading to &quot;...Got &quot;Deck&quot; right away, leading to &quot;Knorr&quot; right away but took a while to divorce myself from &quot;OSHA&quot; instead of &quot;USDA&quot;. Also needed to get rid of &quot;cast&quot; instead of &quot;I put&quot;--just plain old forgot the beginning of that song. Caught onto the UR stuff with &quot;Bury all accounts&quot; but took until the end to get &quot;currations&quot; becaust of the above bad cross. Seems like this wasn&#39;t as hard for me (did the whole thing without Google) but I think I&#39;m old enough to be Rex&#39;s mother or more and Murine was our eyedrop of choice to hide drink and smoke afflicted eyes in the old days of the 50&#39;s!Tetuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15711400315262918915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35415011296585469162009-07-19T17:39:30.570-04:002009-07-19T17:39:30.570-04:00Couple of things-
@Anonymous - pointless personal...Couple of things-<br /><br />@Anonymous - pointless personal attack on our host. There is simply no need to be rude. Period.<br /><br /><br />The clip of Screaming Jay Hawkins brought back a 25 year-old memory (or thereabout) of the Jim Jarmusch movie, Stranger than Paradise. The female lead, a young Hungarian women, is obsessed with the singer, blasting his music, and saying repeatedly something to the effect of, &quot;Screaming Jay Hawkins - he&#39;s my man.&quot; Funny, weird film.pednsghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11542059534657415505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79245129538769384932009-07-19T16:42:34.768-04:002009-07-19T16:42:34.768-04:00@Rex
Re: Murine. Just because you&#39;ve never hea...@Rex<br />Re: Murine. Just because you&#39;ve never heard of it doesn&#39;t make it so obscure as to be quibble-worthy. If there&#39;s a drugstore in Binghampton, they sell Murine in your neck of the woods. There are some things even a narcissist like you has never heard of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8353175150217204552009-07-19T16:25:46.352-04:002009-07-19T16:25:46.352-04:00@Ulrich et al -- Correction from two days ago. In...@Ulrich et al -- Correction from two days ago. In the discussion of Jesus/Jesu, I got the name of the German Chorale wrong. I said it was &quot;Jesu, bleibet meine Freude,&quot; but it is in fact &quot;Jesus bleibet meine Freude.&quot; That is, the name &#39;Jesus&#39; is in the nominative case here rather than the vocative. I notice that the false name appears in many places -- a back formation from &quot;Jesu, Joy of Man&#39;s Desiring,&quot; I guess. (This doesn&#39;t really weigh one way or the other in the matter we were discussing. Just wanted to set the record straight.)<br /><br />Jesus bleibet meine Freude,<br />Meines Herzens Trost und Saft,<br />Jesus wehret allem Leide,<br />Er ist meines Lebens Kraft,<br />Meiner Augen Lust und Sonne,<br />Meiner Seele Schatz und Wonne;<br />Darum lass ich Jesum nicht<br />Aus dem Herzen und Gesicht.Clarknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10122828252826957152009-07-19T16:23:50.073-04:002009-07-19T16:23:50.073-04:00@Joho and Ulrich
why didn&#39;t I think of that??...@Joho and Ulrich<br /><br />why didn&#39;t I think of that???chefbeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87388560125456639532009-07-19T16:12:53.467-04:002009-07-19T16:12:53.467-04:00Woo Hoo, shout out to me at 74 down. First and se...Woo Hoo, shout out to me at 74 down. First and second to last time I went into a Wendy&#39;s I said, laughingly, &quot;do I get a discount because my name is Wendy?&quot; they said, unsmiling, &quot;no&quot;. Allrighty then, never mind.<br /><br />My experience with this puzzle was pretty much the same as most have commented on here. Thought I had it conquered it and found out after coming here that I had totally mucked up the LIMP, LIMPED, VICEROY, section. Sigh!!<br />Oh well the rest of it was right.<br /><br />On to the LA Times.chefwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03999206352243329280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26137732638279707062009-07-19T16:09:28.689-04:002009-07-19T16:09:28.689-04:00Nice puzzle with a slow and go kind of solve summe...Nice puzzle with a slow and go kind of solve summed up nicely by Rex&#39;s write-up. It took me until URSINE WAVe to finally get the UR theme at which point I had about 3/4 of the themed answers I just didn&#39;t get. Alas, I ended with an error with WHENCE, WAD, and DIAM. <br /><br />@foodie: I too enjoyed your fish tale of yesterday. Thank goodness you stopped to check on the people.PlantieBeahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01960277851368508036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79368407911538472102009-07-19T16:03:59.733-04:002009-07-19T16:03:59.733-04:00@Clark: good luck! Isn&#39;t it interesting that J...@Clark: good luck! Isn&#39;t it interesting that John Milton apparently was inspired by &quot;Lucifer&quot; to write &quot;Paradise Lost&quot;? I don&#39;t have the Dutch text here, but I will look for it when I&#39;m in Holland in two weeks. <br /><br />Not only was there a shout-out to Acme, but also to Orange!machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10132609607543963042009-07-19T15:45:16.724-04:002009-07-19T15:45:16.724-04:00@ foodie -- I went back to yesterday&#39;s comment...@ foodie -- I went back to yesterday&#39;s comments and found your great account of the water rescue of an ailing man, family and fish. So glad to hear of all of you who stopped to help, and that the outcome was a good one! A keeper of a tale... and thanks for sharing.<br /><br />∑;)ArtLvrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03869528391374878601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4082873151864282662009-07-19T15:38:43.793-04:002009-07-19T15:38:43.793-04:00@Ulrich ... Easy recipe for curried wolf:
Use c...@Ulrich ... Easy recipe for curried wolf: <br /><br />Use curry brush on wolf. <br /><br />Done.johohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12708487230515532492noreply@blogger.com